Samples: intertextuality project
As I have mentioned in class, I invite and encourage you to browse through the projects from past classes. You can do so at this point as part of your composting, to get a feel for how some other writers have read Frankenstein from an intertextual perspective.
Should you use anything specific from one of these essays–that is, specific language or an idea that is part of someone else’s reading, you will need to cite the source and credit the author. My suggestion would be to browse for some models and examples, not to use these as research (since this is not a research project) but for composting.
You might consider these examples:
Other possible places to go with the idea of intertextuality (that is, dealing with the amalgam-like quality of the novel, the recognition that there are multiple layers in the novel): Dante, the author’s introduction, the letter writing frame, aspects of stories within stories in the novel, Paradise Lost (and any other book title that is mentioned), Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the idea of the ’sublime,’ scientific references, alchemy. Lots of places. Recall that you can use the they say/I say model to develop your idea for the insight that you will argue the interetextual connection offers. The novel says (or this character in the novel, or many people view the novel as saying) this; the intertextual reference (as I read it) says this.
